The kids who maintain the popular Timothy Dwight College blog at Yale recently starred in a music video about the last day of school. Title: THE MOST EPIC VIDEO OF ALL TIME. Honestly, swashbuckling confidence is usually a turn on, but then they elaborated:
The filming of this video was intense. Devin alone consumed 4 entire Dr. Pepper's along the way. No animals were hurt in the making of this video. Except for one, and he had it coming. This was so much fun to make: the more we shot, the better we got.
Do you know who else drank a lot of Dr. Pepper? (Hint: Yale is like a box of chocolates.)
Hints on the experience:
There are many ways to watch this video. Watch for Devin, listen to the lyrics, and count how many times we shamelessly mock the idiosyncrasies of Sweeney and Spencer. If you want the song version to this, we have a high quality mp3. This is half of the I-26 sextet next year--watch out, it's going to be an awesome room.
Sounds like an awesome time, TD blog. After I finish downloading the "high quality mp3" of your jam, I'm gonna go down to celebrate the end of the school year like a Matherite: whisky, lather, dance, repeat.
Matt Bakal, the Eli director of the moderately popular and pretty funny 95 Theses video, has just released a music video by Great Caesar. Ok, I admit that I was pretty effing annoyed that I saw neither Caesar nor Brutus nor Cleopatra nor Marc Antony. The band was fine. (They sound a little too much like the Mighty Mighty Bosstones if you ask me, but that might just be the horns.)
The new video called "Everyone's a VIP to Someone" stars some dude in a variety of lumberjack shirts and a couple foxy girls in the rain. What's potentially more interesting is Yale's Bulldog Production company. As we're seeing more from them, it's pretty clear that they're over-funded and under-talented. Soft focus, fast cuts of various objects, narrow depth of field? Please. Darren Aronofsky did that shit years ago, and we all know where he went to school. Could this be the film iteration of Veritas Records, the Ivy League kings of the Battle of Terrible Bands?
Listen, I know I can be an asshole. But I will admit that Bakal's music video knocks Acuña's recent clip out of the park solely based on the scant mention of penis and the fact that he didn't steal the song from SNL.
In conclusion, we're chilling out on video for a while. Also, we promise to write about Penn some day. Aaaannnnnddddd, you ladies in the rain can contact me at adam@ivygateblog.com.
The Harvard-Radcliffe TV station has changed call letters from HRTV to HUTV and changed its tone from soap opera to silly. Besides abandoning their Seven-Sisters roots, the HUTV site also appears to have abandoned any attempt at serious television. But this video of Stephen Pinker--known on campus as "The Hair"--smashing a TV is aight.
The show line-up includes some standby favorites like On Harvard Time alongside less serious-sounding shorts by the Harvard Hooligan, but even the most informative HUTV News pretty much just covers students talking about Obama. It's a nice try, but we'd rather watch the Mather House video.
That said, one has to wonder why HUTV would invest their resources so heavily to make a website of B-grade viral videos. (Well, make that bacterial videos since nobody's really catching on.) Harvard has a recent history of really good comedy and a short history of bad jokes. But since a Brown alum basically owns TV news, you'd think HUTV at least try to report on some real current events to build a legacy. Those Harvard kids love legacy, after all.
So c'mon HUTV. Let's see some real balls-to-the-wall, unembedded reporting! In the meantime, just leave the real journalism to us.
Penn grad DJ Lubel '05 popped back into the spotlight this weekend with his video about the Ivy League swill in Murray Hill. The video references to "Jew geography" and Lehman Bros emeriti in that elevated piece of Manhattan in the 30s on the East Side. Cool, but it's worth watching for the dood-bros mooning the camera in front of the stretch Hummer at Joshua Tree.
The song's audio has actually been floating around the Internet since last year or so. NYMag nailed it when they summed up the point:
We all go to temple but we worship the dough We've got more Japs than all of Tokyo Pour me a Grey Goose and Red Bull As I take this Adderal pill Tonight I'm blacking out up on Murray Hill
Academic Earth is making Ivy lectures available to anyone with an internet connection. A Hulu for nerds, AE aggregates lecture videos posted by schools like Yale, MIT, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon, and even Harvard Med school. This is devaluing your exclusive education, you say? Let's be honest, you sleep through a lot of your classes anyway. And hey, information should be free, blah, blah, blah, democracy.
Here's Yale Philosophy's Shelly Kagan teaching "Life and Death"--actually it's mostly just Death:
This is great news for everyone rejected by the Ivies this year. You can get that quality education after all! And according to Forbes, you'd be happier at NYU anyway (Editors note: this is quite possibly true). After the jump, more lectures!
At 5pm today, about 27,066 of the record 29,112 students who applied to Harvard this year will get the thin email from 86 Brattle St. These down-and-out overachievers will be weeping into the AP test prep books until they hear from the other 7 Ivies. But that doesn't mean that the Cambridge crowd can't laugh at them first.
Who says that Harvard students are arrogant about being Harvard students, anyways? (A fewdifferentsources, actually.) Well, any doubt can be assuaged by the warm pat on the shoulder offered by On Harvard Time. Reports of a new record low 7% acceptance rate guarantee that OHT's new video, "You Got Rejected," beats the Yale Amazing Race audition tape for the most relevant video of the day.
Read advice from Dean Fitzsimmons about money and the waitlist after the jump.
Welcome back to IVY reality index, where we watch Ithaca College's masterful Cornell mock-soap-opera and dissect it with the obsessive zeal of a seventh grade girl seeing Twilight for the eighth time. This time we enlisted the help of Real Live Cornell Guy (and fraternity brother, to boot!) Michael Morisy '07 to help break it down.
But first, an update on last week's reality index: Remember when we accused the Black Kid With No Name of having a weird pseudo-British, quasi-Australian accent? Turns out the actor is from Zimbabwe, and that's actually the way he speaks! Apparently the Zimbabwe accent sounds just like an American theater geek faking the Queen's English. Who knew? Anyway, on to...
IVY Episode 2: In Which The Sissy Liberates Himself After His Girlfriend Goes On A Trampage
Note: If you have trouble with the embeds, go to ICTV's website and watch there.
He's ba-ack! Harvard's self-proclaimed "male Britney Spears" and maker of gloriously cheesy music videos, Petros, has gyrated his way back into the spotlight, and this time it's not sparkle-infused jizzum he's selling but golddigging, gloryholes, and self-love. Ladies and gentlemen, prepare to be, er, petrified,by "Predator."
Our last post on Petros didn't go over so well, so in the interest of fairness, we requested an interview this time around. For almost an hour on Gchat, the man known to mere mortals as Peter Shields (Harvard '09) entertained all kinds of annoying questions about his mad dance moves and killer pecs. He's self-deprecating, startlingly self-aware, and— dare I say— fun!
IvyGate: Both "Body Glow" and "Predator" refer to making "videos." Can we expect a Petros sex tape any time soon? Petros: C'mon, Maureen. IvyGate: What? Lena Chen had one! Petros: Sex tapes propel career that are already set. We still have to work on mine for a bit. I'd say 2015.
More from everyone's favorite Greek-American singing sensation on sexual politics, the state of pop music, and why he'll never actually be Britney Spears. After the jump.
The intrepid lads and lasses of Ithaca College — some sort of liberal arts dealie that coexists with the Ivy Most Likely To Have An Inferiority Complex And/Or Belong To A Sorority — have created a delightful little soap opera entitled IVY. Filmed on Cornell's campus, IVY "may or may not be based on actual Cornell students. ... Okay. Yeah, they're kind of based on actual Cornell students. Like pretty much." The resulting parody so inspired, so ingenious, so delightfully spot-on, why, it almost makes you wish you went to a safety school! But seriously: I nearly died choking on my Diet Coke Plus with Vitamins during the opening scene, featuring a back-to-school monologue from Sorostitute #1, Emily:
Sure, the acting can be a little awkward, and the camera work kind of makes me motion-sick, but in the context of college, social discomfort and a lingering scent of vomit only enhance the cinema vérité quality. Emily emerges as the Blair Waldorf of the bunch, the scheming princess with her pussywhipped pre-med boyfriend, Chris. But Chris is having a change of heart! He's thinking about dropping out of Orgo! Even worse— he might be falling for Natalie, the outcast studio art major with a nose pierce and Jenny Lewis bangs!
After the jump (and mostly because "Gossip Girl" isn't on this week, which leaves a big hole in the "painfully-soundtracked elitist melodrama" part of our hearts) more video and we knock off Daily Intel's Gossip Girl reality index.
Happy Election Day! While you stare vacantly into your television waiting for the country to choose one leader or another, here's a bunch of election-related YouTubes that may or may not be fun.
First up: Cornellians rap about rocking the vote:
After the jump: Under the Button parodies that obnoxious "Don't Vote" video, and cute kids impersonate the candidates.
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